Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-31

kaline constituents assumed the forms of
sulphates instead or carbonates.
Considerably more than 100000 per
SONS had been at the end of last year in
sured against sickness under the German
law OF compulsory insurance. At the be-
ginning of 1886 the compulsion to insure
was extended to the whole administration
of the post, railway and telegraph, and to
ali trades connected with transportation,
and q movement is on foot to extend the
principle still further. The introduction
of the system has not led to any diminu-
tion in the number Of friendly societies of
trades unions, but many of them have
had an enormous increase.
| Professor L. Weber relates, in Ger
man periodical, that during a thunder
storm at Rlhnitz. in Mecklenburg, the
lower pane of window on the first floor
| of a house was broken by lightning and q
Jet of water was thrown upward through
the hole to the ceiling with such force
that part of the ceiling was broken down
and other damage was done. The hole in
the window WAS like bullet-bole, with
radial cracks Some cigars on table,
that was broken by the fall of the ceiling,
and the water were carbonized. The
origin of the jet of water is not satisfac-
torily explained.
One of the curiosities of the animal
kingdom is the eulachon or candle fish
(ThaleiChthys paciticus) of the North
eastern Pacific. 1t is about fourteen
inches long, resembles the smelt in ap-
pesrsnce, and is caught in large qusnti-
ties in the early spring. 1t is the latest
of all known fishes, for which reason its
dried and smoked flesh is highly esteem
ed as wa ming food for winter by the
Indians, by whom the oil is also drunk.
SO fat is the fish that when dried it burns
with bright flame until entirely con-
sumed, forming a candle much used
among the Indians, either with or with
out a wooden wick passed through the
body.
The use of gas cooking stoves is in
creasing in Great Britain. Many of the
Scottish gas companies now let out the
stoves at cheap rate. DR.. Stevenson
Mscadam, speaking of gas cooking in its
sanitary aspects, says: "The wholesome
ness of the meat cooked in the gas stoves
must be regarded as beyond doubt. Gas
cooked meat will be found to be more
juicy and palstable, and yet free from
tuose dlAdIOludl DUultS pTOuUCeu uuTlug
the confined cooking of meat, which are
more or less hurtful, and even poison
GUS" A joint cooked in gas oven
weighs heavier than the same jointcooked
in q coal oven, because the juices are
more preserved in it.
A proposed method for making window
glass by rolling instead of blowing has
been described recently in the Pittsburg
papers and commented upon at some
length. Though the description of the
process is not very clear, it would seem
as if the intention Of the inventor is to
run the molten glass as it comes from the
pot between two hollow reversible rolls
heated with natural gas by pipes full of
perforations placed o.. the inside of the
rolls. As the rolled glass passes through
the rolls it is It ceived on the opposite
side on an iron plate, also heated, from
which it is passed into the annealing
furnace. 1t is claimed that by this pro-
cess glass of uniform thickness and
polished ready for the sash can be made.
An Englishman has introduced abroad |
8 small power gas engine and dynamo |
combined, which has been designed to |
meet the requirements of small business |
where it will drive light machinery dur